 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 1998 - 220 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | John P. Kaminski, Richard Leffler - History - 1998 - 244 pages
...void. No legislative act therefore contrary to the constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorise, but what they forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | Bardo Fassbender - Political Science - 1998 - 444 pages
...courts. 'No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal; . . . that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves ... ,'36 'The Constitution', Ham32... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall - Law - 2000 - 506 pages
...No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, c .111 be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves: that men acting by virtue of power, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.'" In dealing with... | |
 | Richard M Battistoni - Law - 2000 - 198 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | E. Robert Statham - History - 2002 - 176 pages
...Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principle; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.57 In the Insular... | |
 | Catharine Cookson - Religion - 2001 - 288 pages
...this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principle; that the servant is abo\e the master; that the representatives of the people are...superior to the people themselves; that men acting by \irtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. . . . [T]he... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 692 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - Law - 2004 - 502 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid. If it be said that... | |
 | Patriot Hall - History - 2004 - 346 pages
...void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal;...the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid." END T, his passage... | |
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There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution can be valid.... 
